Skype Plots Business VOIP Course with Cisco

Skype's Skype for SIP software cleared its interoperability certification with the Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series for Small Business, the latest step in the VOIP provider's plan to hedge into the market for business communications. Skype for SIP will help the company expand its revenue streams into enterprise markets, something it has been unable to do under the aegis of parent company eBay to date.

Skype Sept. 23 said its Skype for SIP software cleared
its interoperability certification with the Cisco Unified Communications 500
Series for Small Business, the latest step in the VOIP provider's plan to hedge
into the market for business communications.
In beta since March, Skype for SIP is the VOIP provider's plan to let users connect their SIP-based corporate
phone systems to Skype's Web calling services. The service lets users make free
domestic and cheap international calls using office telephones instead of a
headset plugged into a personal computer, which is the way the bulk of Skype's
481 million users make PC-to-PC calls with Skype under the company's consumer
offering.

Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series is a family of unified communications servers that serve the voice,
video and data needs of small businesses. These servers will route the calls
Skype for SIP users make and receive.